Re: Naming children after SF and fantasy characters


David Loewe, Jr. wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 23:09:59 GMT, Konrad Gaertner
> <kgaertner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >"rja.carnegie@xxxxxxxxxx" wrote:
> >>
> >> Neither SF nor celebrity-related but the story is told of Scottish
> >> brothers both quite normally named Murdo, but after two different
> >> people named Murdo.
> >
> >"Hi, I'm Larry, this is my brother Darryl, and this is my other
> >brother Darryl."
>
> Once upon a time...
>
> My father divorced my mother. Some time later he married a woman with
> 5 children - one of them named David. This made for three Davids in
> the house when I was there (Mom had primary custody). It also enabled
> my step-brother Mike to utter the line "Hi, I'm Mike, this is my
> brother David, and this is my other brother David." back in the
> Seventies. I had no problem with that one the first time I heard it.
>
> Other amusements I like to perplex people with - "I am an only child
> [my mother's only child]. I have a [half] brother and two [one half,
> one step] sisters [Dad having divorced and remarried *again*]." and "I
> was born in England [Air Force Base, Alexandria, Louisiana]."

Brother and sister have I none, but that man's father is paying my
ex-wife's child support...

Not really. However, I work in school student recordkeeping on
computer. Which requires confidentiality, but recently a data
translation job went wrong and I had to inspect data to see why, and I
was interested to see in the list of students' parents, guardians, and
other contacts, that one student is equipped with stepfather and
stepmother - how did she do that? Well, all right, several possible
explanations come to mind...

More thoughtfully analytical was the case where relationship-to-student
was specified as "Father Figure"...

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